The Island Feminisms Project : Imagined Through Social Justice and Praxis

Format:

Article

Responsibility:

Karides, Marina ; Rodríguez-Coss, Noralis

Language:

English

Published:

Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability, 2023-05-15

Authors:

• Karides, Marina
• Rodríguez-Coss, Noralis

Publication info:

Okinawan Journal of Island Studies

Volume:

4

Number:

2

Start page:

189

End page:

197

Version:

VoR

Abstract:

The following is a curated conversation between Marina Karides and Noralis Rodríguez-Coss, who together founded the Island Feminisms Project and continue to advance feminist, decolonial, and social justice approaches in island studies. With the publication of “Why Island Feminism?” (Karides 2017), conference sessions, and the establishment of the Island Feminisms Spring Series, begun in 2020, the co-founders suggest that the field … of island studies was guided towards gender and women (see Gender and Island Communities 2020, edited by Gaini and Nielsen as an example). However, they argue that the field continues to struggle to incorporate feminist and intersectional frameworks analytically. Karides and Rodríguez-Coss explore the paucity of feminist grounding in island studies, which tends towards the approach of “add women and stir.” Their dialogue reveals grassroots island activism as the core of island feminisms, which they identify as a social justice project. Read more

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12000/0002019693